Knowledge – Business, Management, and the Job Market

What would happen to your company if you were gone for a month? Ten questions that show where a family business still rests on one person – and where to begin changing that.

Managers are told to develop their people, yet judged on this quarter’s results. That tension is what drives talent hoarding – and what organisations can change.

Gallup links 70% of the variation in team engagement to the manager. Before you set out to fix engagement, look at the quality of management itself.

When is an operational audit worth commissioning, what does it cover and what does it change? Four types of audit, a modular scope and examples from manufacturing.

Assessment centres, PCM, FRIS and Gallup talents each reveal a different part of the picture. How to combine them – and why none of them replaces the board’s decision.

Poland has quietly become one of the most important animal nutrition markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Demand for feed additives, enzymes, phytogenics, and specialty premixes is growing faster here than in most of Western Europe and international companies are taking notice. But when it comes to building a local team or placing a regional manager, many foreign companies quickly discover that hiring in Poland works very differently from hiring at home.

544 profiles reviewed, 18 recommendations. What market mapping revealed about the availability, expectations and geography of operations managers in Poland.

The debate about the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market is currently dominated by one key question: will AI lead to the mass disappearance of jobs? However, the latest empirical research paints a much more complex picture.

The growing number of environmental regulations in the European Union is changing how businesses operate, particularly in manufacturing, waste management, and logistics sectors

C-level recruitment carries the risk of making an incorrect decision, which in turn results in tangible costs related to a wrong personnel choice. In times of transformation, performance pressure, and increasing leadership accountability, more and more companies are turning to the assessment center as a tool for in-depth leadership diagnosis.

The EU Directive on pay equality and transparency introduces a change that, for many organisations, will prove far more profound than a standard regulatory adjustment. Although the regulation is often reduced to reporting indicators, in practice it affects the very foundations of management — namely how pay decisions are made, how relationships with employees are shaped, and how consistent internal policies truly are.
This impact will be particularly visible in small and medium-sized enterprises, where remuneration systems have often developed in an informal and evolutionary manner.

Expert interview with Tomasz Wagner, Tax Advisor and Tax Director.